This week I have been on the road, visiting some friends in Boston on my way to attending CSEET 2010 at CMU, Pittsburgh.
The conference has been excellent, with lots of interesting papers and workshops that have given me lots of ideas of could be integrated into our curriculum at the Open University. A particular challenge of many of the techniques (e.g., puzzle-based learning) is that they have been designed for classroom based situations. In order to adapt these into a distance learning delivery mode, there needs to be some careful thought into how the elements of interactivity and student collaboration could be maintained in some useful form.
I have been making notes on the various presentations at Cloudworks - http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2020.
This has been an interesting experience and I am not convinced that the Cloudworks system is optimised for live-blogging of events like these. In particular, it would be better if the content editor did periodic autosaves; and it would be helpful to have a discussion section associated with each content item, so that it is easier to see the context in which a particular conversation is being conducted.
Nevertheless, I think Cloudworks is a great platform for sharing information on learning and teaching ideas.
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